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Crow Watch: A Hacker News Alternative

17 points by medv 7mo ago

jefurii 7mo ago
Looks cool but it's another one of those exclusive invite-only communities.
- medv 7mo ago
  I guess this is pretty much the point people don't like. I will redo the the registration.
vivzkestrel 7mo ago
- lots of hacker news alternatives out there - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44973208 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44973208 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967391 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967391 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41789661 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41789661
- weedhopper 7mo ago
  One seems to be completely empty and the remaining two seem to just be ideas for pro-ai and anti-ai respectively?
- medv 7mo ago
  those looks not very promising. building a community is hard. but i'm dedicated to a building a small tech community anyway. this is why i'm investing into building crow.watch.
weedhopper 7mo ago
What’s so different about it besides the invite-only model?
- medv 7mo ago
  The https://crow.watch https://crow.watch is heavily inspired by lobster. basically same algorithm, same flagging, amd tag filtering. one key difference is [show] tag with dedicated "Show" page. A feature from HN, which lobster does not have. Invite-only where is only to prevent spam in the future. I will rephrase the login page. Will make it "open" and as we see spammers will close down.
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> invite only Unkindness of the Crow. Not even my local, most elitist hackerspace requires an introduction and, apparently, ideally a dossier. I'll pass.
- medv 7mo ago
  The offline community does not have a problem with spammers/impersonators. For online communities this is much more difficult. I don't know what kind of struggle and filtering HN implemented to deal this it. But I do not want to build complicated anti-abuse systems. Right now registration is open, after certain size i will "restrict" registrations.
vrighter 7mo ago
what's the difference from lobste.rs?
- medv 7mo ago
  I was a lobster user for 7y. but i find it now way to big, and moderation is strange sometimes. I think, having an additional community is nice. No need to concentrate everybody in one or two website. And there are multiple communities already! I thought I can build one with not such restrictive self-promo rules as on lobster.
  - vrighter 7mo ago
    your last point is actually a huge turn off for me.
    - medv 7mo ago
      this is why i think having different communities is a nice thing.
      - vrighter 7mo ago
        it's just that most of the self promotion going on over here is ai slop nowadays (oh you vibe coded an app? the whole "point" of it is that anyone can do it, so your vibecoded thing is completely uninteresting). And you want more of that? Does not compute, for me
        medv 7mo ago
        obviously not more of ai slop, but people still do cool project!

17 points by medv 7mo ago

jefurii 7mo ago

Looks cool but it's another one of those exclusive invite-only communities.

medv 7mo ago
I guess this is pretty much the point people don't like. I will redo the the registration.

vivzkestrel 7mo ago

- lots of hacker news alternatives out there - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44973208 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44973208 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967391 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967391 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41789661 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41789661

weedhopper 7mo ago
One seems to be completely empty and the remaining two seem to just be ideas for pro-ai and anti-ai respectively?
medv 7mo ago
those looks not very promising. building a community is hard. but i'm dedicated to a building a small tech community anyway. this is why i'm investing into building crow.watch.

weedhopper 7mo ago

What’s so different about it besides the invite-only model?

medv 7mo ago
The https://crow.watch https://crow.watch is heavily inspired by lobster. basically same algorithm, same flagging, amd tag filtering. one key difference is [show] tag with dedicated "Show" page. A feature from HN, which lobster does not have. Invite-only where is only to prevent spam in the future. I will rephrase the login page. Will make it "open" and as we see spammers will close down.

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> invite only Unkindness of the Crow. Not even my local, most elitist hackerspace requires an introduction and, apparently, ideally a dossier. I'll pass.

medv 7mo ago
The offline community does not have a problem with spammers/impersonators. For online communities this is much more difficult. I don't know what kind of struggle and filtering HN implemented to deal this it. But I do not want to build complicated anti-abuse systems. Right now registration is open, after certain size i will "restrict" registrations.

vrighter 7mo ago

what's the difference from lobste.rs?

medv 7mo ago
I was a lobster user for 7y. but i find it now way to big, and moderation is strange sometimes. I think, having an additional community is nice. No need to concentrate everybody in one or two website. And there are multiple communities already! I thought I can build one with not such restrictive self-promo rules as on lobster.
- vrighter 7mo ago
  your last point is actually a huge turn off for me.
  - medv 7mo ago
    this is why i think having different communities is a nice thing.
    - vrighter 7mo ago
      it's just that most of the self promotion going on over here is ai slop nowadays (oh you vibe coded an app? the whole "point" of it is that anyone can do it, so your vibecoded thing is completely uninteresting). And you want more of that? Does not compute, for me
      - medv 7mo ago
        obviously not more of ai slop, but people still do cool project!